Those aren't used for computing though. And, yeah, I think if we did we probably should. Like if terms related to genocide were used for stopping a lot of processes at once that would be pretty weird to me.

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Kill is used to refer to stopping processes and that's probably where the line is in my opinion. It feels very different to me to say "kill a process" versus "genocide a group of processes"

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We do use war. It's a common package in Java. Should we rename that because it might make people uncomfortable when we say "We are going to deploy the war tomorrow"? Why can't we just accept the fact that words have multiple meanings?

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to update the web app but war never changes.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

hmm... have you tried nuking everything? That might help